The Closer: The Complete Fourth Season
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Actor: Corey Reynolds, G.W. Bailey, J.K. Simmons, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert GossettBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Chinese (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 690 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- An offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators: These are just a few of the traits exhibited by Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensi
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DVD Review: One of the strongest seasons for Brenda and her crew
Summary: 4 Stars
Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick)has one of her most challenging cases when Detective Sanchez's (Raymond Cruz)younger brother Oscar is murdered. It's one of the stand out episodes of the fourth season of "The Closer" in a season full of stand out episodes. Although "The Closer" has always been exceptional the show took a leap to excellent with episodes like "Sudden Death" and the clever, amusing "Dial `M' For Provenza" where Lt. Provenza (G. W. Bailey)goes undercover posing as a hit man to snare a woman looking for someone to kill her husband. The pressure is also on as Fritz and Brenda find that her father is pushing them towards the altar just a bit earlier than they had planned. With a cast featuring J.K. Simmons ("Spider-Man), Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett, Tony Denison, Jon Tenney, Michael Paul Chan, Gina Ravera, Phillip P. Keene and others it's hard to go wrong and with the top notch writing/direction on this show the actors have great material to work with.
As with previous seasons the performances are flawless but more importantly, the writing and direction equal the actors in this terrific 15 episode season. The nice thing about the show is that the series constantly employs the best character actors working in Hollywood. That's fortunate for viewers of the show but unfortunate for other TV shows. More importantly we get some strong work by some terrific directors from actor Kevin Bacon to Roxann Dawson ("Star Trek: Voyager"). That's not to suggest that the other directors are slouches when it comes to doing their job--all the director's do an outstanding job with the best written episodes.
There were only a couple of weak episodes for the fourth season and they were few and far between. The episodes that didn't stray from the series formula much tended to be the weaker ones of the bunch. Luckily, the writers/directors/producers play with that formula quite a bit.
"The Closer" looks extremely good with a nice, crisp presentation on DVD that doesn't look over processed. Flesh tones are natural looking. The anamorphic transfers looks better than most TV shows on home video.
Audio isn't unusual or adventurous but the show is primarily a dialog driven show. The few, brief action scenes are nicely placed around the Surround speakers.
No commentary tracks which is a pity I would have loved to hear Kevin Bacon or Roxann Dawson discuss their role as directors on the show particularly with their backgrounds as actors.
We do get deleted scenes for "Speed Bump", "Tijuana Brass", "Good Faith", "Fate Line" and "Double Blind" the concluding episode of the fourth season.
We get two very good featurettes that show quite a bit of imagination and should be saluted for the exceptional work that went into them. "To Catch a Lie" features an FBI interrogator discussing how law enforcement catches folks messing with the truth.
"A Day in the Life of a Homicide Detective" features series star Corey Reynolds riding along with a retired LAPD Detective.
Finally we an amusing gag reel as part of the mix.
The fourth season of "The Closer" continues to develop the wonderfully realized characters on the show. The writing and direction take a jump up in quality producing the best season yet and some of the most exceptional episodes of the series' run.
With some of the best character actors in Hollywood featured on this show, it leaves other shows wanting. That's too bad for those other shows and great for fans of "The Closer".
Description of The Closer: The Complete Fourth Season
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/26/2009 Run time: 690 minutes Rating: Nr"Oh, for heaven's sake, it is a head!" The Southern drawl and mild exasperation are by now familiar to TV crime buffs: Kyra Sedgwick's steel-magnolia-with-a-badge, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. The fourth season of The Closer finds Sedgwick in super form, as the scattered, ditzy mama's girl with a weakness for junk food and a singular focus when it comes to getting perps to talk. Yet the strength of The Closer goes far beyond just Sedgwick, as formidable as she is. The ensemble cast is also stellar, and very human and believable. Johnson's fellow cops (among whom Johnson is, finally, one of the boys, albeit in frilly skirts) are fleshed-out and battle their own demons. And this season viewers get to know Johnson's fiancé, the FBI agent Fritz Howard (Jon Tenney), much better, along with his "psychic" sister (the unforgettable Amy Sedaris), and Brenda's doting parents, as both families prepare for the happy couple's impending nuptials--if serial killers and terrorist plots will only give them a little break. The boxed set includes the full season, along with delicious extras, including an unforgettable blooper reel (the cast really does seem to have a blast shooting this series, as viewers have long suspected; and don't miss guest star Jennifer Coolidge's R-rated ad lib café scene). There's also an informative featurette with Corey Reynolds (the hunky Sgt. Gabriel) and LAPD Det. Mike Berchem, an adviser to the series; deleted scenes, and more. Thank you--thank you so much! --A.T. Hurley
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